Welcome to the
Est. 2014
Menlo Park, CA
What
Design products & experiences
Where
At Sequoia’s portfolio companies
When
During pivotal company moments
Why
To help the daring build design legendary companies.
Welcome to the
Design products & experiences
At Sequoia’s portfolio companies
During pivotal company moments
To help the daring build design legendary companies.
Here's how
When we help teams ship and iterate core features, we focus on the total experience — not just the pixels in their app. When we storyboard, we draw what’s happening in the world and what’s happening in their product. We also help Sequoia companies tell their story and build healthy design orgs with the structures, processes and measurement tools they need to thrive.
Along the way, high-performing designers join the Sequoia Design Lab for fast-paced, one-on-one, hands-on projects as Visiting Designers.
Sound intriguing? Apply here.
The program
The designers who join the Sequoia Design Lab arrive with different experiences, strengths, and points of view. What brings us together is a shared belief in story-driven design. Some designers stay for years, working with many different companies. Others designers come for only a few months and then join Sequoia portfolio companies or transistion to the next phase in their careers.
Founder of Sequoia Design Lab,
Head of Design at Sequoia
James Buckhouse founded the Sequoia Design Lab to help startups reach their full potential through exceptional product design. He lectures frequently at Stanford’s d.school and the Graduate School of Business on story-driven design. Prior to Sequoia, he led black-ops products at Twitter as their Sr. Experience Architect. Before Twitter, earned his story stripes as a cinematographer for DreamWorks, working on the Shrek, Madagascar and Matrix trilogies.
Designer
Coleen Baik is a designer and artist currently based in New York City. She was at Twitter from 2009 to 2014 in San Francisco, where she led the design of foundational experiences such as Photos, Photo filters, Cross-platform Compose, early Conversations, and Group Messaging. She's been an advisor at Medium and has engaged in traditionally non-tech spaces with activists like Gloria Steinem. She believes that technology should serve connections, not the other way around.
Designer
Aine designs products from an experiential standpoint. Her full design process focuses on data, concept, and designing with a POV. After Sequoia, she looks forward to joining a design team that encourages iterations and risk. Aine holds a BFA in Painting and Visual Communications from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
Design Intern
Mary Alice is a designer finishing up her degree at Stanford University in Product Design, a discipline she found aligns perfectly with her intersection of interests in design, engineering, and tech. Constantly inspired by the people and places around her, Mary Alice focuses on integrating her passion for people into her work through full-process design and creating transformative products by practicing empathy. Her deep curiosity for exploring unusual connections and detailed oriented mindset combine to produce deliberate design.
More than just pixels
Growing our community
We're always looking for talented and passionate people to join us. If you’re an experienced designer looking to work on fast-paced, hands-on projects with Sequoia and our portfolio, we'd love to hear from you.